Window-shade bracket.



CQM, LANGE WINDOW SHADE BRACKET. APPLICATION FILED JULY [8. 191.6.

LQQORW. Patented Mar. 27,1917.

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WINDOW-SHADE BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 27, 191%.

Application filed. July 18, 1916. Serial No. 110,002.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, CASIMIR M. LANGE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Window-Shade Bracket, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to brackets especially adapted for shade rollers, although not necessarily limited to this use.

The invention has for its general objects to improve the construction of brackets so as to be comparatively simple and inexpensive to manufacture, reliable and efficient in use, and so designed as to be easily and conveniently fastened in place and be taken down without destructively marring the woodwork, and which has the further ad-, vantage that it can be applied to the beaded, grooved, curved or other surfaces of the window frame, with the required firmness or rigidity.

A. more specific object of the invention is the provision of a bracket having rigidly fastened thereto a screw so that the bracket can be fastened in place without the use of tools, the body of the bracket being made up of a sheet metal stamping to which the screw is riveted.

With such objects in view, and others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bracket;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the bracket is made; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a modified form of the invention.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a shade bracket which is made from a blank constructed substantially as shown in Fig. 3. The bracket comprises an ear 1 and a base 2 to which is fastened the attaching screw 3. The sheet metal blank or stamp shows the base part 2 integrally connected tion 6 is shown approximately circular and the section 5 approximately semicircular, and these sections have registering apertures 8 and 9 for receiving the shouldered end 10 of the screw 3, which shouldered end is upset or riveted in the base of the bracket. The ear 1 of the bracket lies approximately over the center of the base and in approximate alinement with the screw. A bracket constructed in this manner is of durable, substantial and economical design and it can be fastened in place without the use of tools. In applying the bracket the ear 1 is gripped between the thumb and fingers, with the end of the thumb and the index finger bearing on the base 2, so as to give the desired pressure in forcing the screw into the wood while the bracket is bein turned. The base extends considerably beyond the screw in all directions, so that an extended area of sup- .port for the base on the window frame is obtained irrespective of the contour of the surface of the window frame. Since only a single screw is required to attach the bracket there is no objectionable marring of the window frame in taking down or replacing the brackets, as results from the old form of brackets which have to be nailed.

In the construction shown in Fig. 4: the screw is riveted in the disk 6 of the base of the bracket and does not pass through the part 5, as in the former construction. This permits the ear 1 to be directly in the plane of the screw.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent:

1. A bracket consisting of a metal stamping formed of an ear and a base composed of two sections bent back in overlapplng relation, with the ear integrally connected with onesection and a screw rigid on the base and disposed with its axis in line with lation, with the ear integrally connected 10 with one section, one of said sections being provided with an aperture, and a screw fastened in the aperture, said screw being located approximately in the plane of and parallel with the said ear and at right-angles to the base.

CASIMIR M. LANGE.

Copies of thi s patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

' Washington, D. C. 

